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Monday, June 2, 2014

Nigerian football agent caught on video promising to arrange a yellow card for £41k during world cup

Henry Chukwuma Okoroji, a Nigerian match fixer has been indicted in a match fixing scam after he was caught on camera telling
an undercover UK Sun Newspaper reporter, Mahzher Mahmood, he could
arrange a yellow card during the World Cup games for more than
41,000pounds and a penalty for 81,000pounds.

Daily Mail reports that Okoroji spoke with the reporter
in company of his associate, Joe, in a hotel room in Milan, Italy. He was
recorded saying he could facilitate different outcomes on the football
field, including a red card, depending on the amount the reporter was
willing to pay. He was reported to have said that he was
working with two other Nigerian players as well as a senior official of
the Nigerian Football Federation in the match-fixing scam, whohe said
could help influence the Nigerian squad in the world cup. Continue...

In a bid to
prove his credibility, Okoroji was said to have invited a Nigerian/Lazio
footballer, Ogenyi Onazi (pictured right) to the hotel but Onazi is not thought to be involved in the plot.

Only last week, the National Crime Agency (NCA)
began investigations into claims that the friendly match between Nigeria
and Scotland was fixed. Investigations into that allegation is still
going on according to an NCA official.